strengthen your sincerity...

"Relinquish your negative habits and attitudes.

Strengthen your sincerity.

Live in the real word,
and extend your virtue to it without discrimination in the daily round.

Be the truest father or mother, the truest brother or sister,
the truest friend, and the truest disciple.

Humbly respect and serve your teacher,
and dedicate your entire being unwaveringly to self-cultivation.

Then you will surely attain self-mastery
and be able to help others in doing the same."


Lao Tzu
_Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu_, 80
Rendered by Brian Walker
HarperSanFrancisco, 1992, p. 105